Heathrow Airport has warned access to Terminals 2 and 3 is restricted because of flooding.<\/p>\n
Water in the central terminal area means anyone trying to travel to or from either of these terminals cannot travel by road.<\/p>\n
Instead passengers are being advised to travel by rail and tube and to avoid using cars. <\/p>\n
“Our teams are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, we apologise for any disruption caused,” the airport said early on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The disruption comes during the school holidays, one of the busiest periods for the airport.<\/p>\n
Heathrow said 19 July was its busiest day of the year so far as many schools broke up for summer, with 267,000 passengers passing through.<\/p>\n
The airport was recently affected by disruption to railway services, after a water leak prompted the closure of a tunnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/p>\n You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App<\/a>. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X, external<\/a> to get the latest alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport has warned access to Terminals 2 and 3 is restricted because of flooding. Water in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}